Special flights for carrying Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia will begin on August 27. The series of flights will end on September 28. The return flights will start from October 8. Religion secretary Md Babul Hassan confirmed the schedules to the journalists after an inter-ministry meeting on Hajj management at religious affairs ministry on Wednesday. Babul Hassan said that a total of 98,763 pilgrims would perform hajj this year. Among them 1600 pilgrims will perform Hajj under the government management while the rest will go under priv...

Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Senior Principal Officer and Investment In-charge of Narayanganj Branch of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited died in a tragic road accident at Kawrakandi of Madaripur on 6 August 2014. (Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaihe Raziun). He was going to Bagerhat from Narayanganj for official purpose. During demise he was 53. He left behind wife, two sons, one daughter and a host of relatives and well wishers to mourn his death. He joined Islami Bank in 1985. He was born in 1961 at Kalinagar village under Singra Thana of N...

Quite a good number of Japanese investors have applied for factory space at some export processing zones (EPZs) encouraged by BEPZA’a reservation of industrial plots and standard factory space for them at those locations. But their number can’t be divulged at the moment, official sources said. The new development is taking place, they said at a time when external investment in the country is facing a major setback due to land shortage, reports the Financial Express. But the Japanese investors are taking a fresh look towards Bangladesh after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Japan in early June this year. During the visit she assured Japanese investors of specially making available land to them to set up new industries.